About

I am a graduate student at the University of Washington, Seattle, studying how low-level clouds, tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols, and climate interact.

I study clouds in the hope of gaining a better understanding of Earth’s physical climate system (and the climate systems of other planets) through observations, modeling, and theory.  I am also very interested in how climate science can and should be used to inform policy, and in science policy (both science for policy and policy for science) more broadly.

As a member of the UAW Local 4121 academic student employees union, I have been active in communicating the science of climate change and how that ties into different policy responses to labor communities throughout Washington state. My other outreach activities span the range from climate science pub-trivia to developing lessons about the possible climates of exoplanets for high school classrooms to discussing climate change and life as a scientist at Shabbat dinners. I am always looking for new opportunities to share the latest science with different audiences.

Outside the ivory tower, I enjoy photography, hiking, reading (often about history), and travel.

Views expressed on this website, on social media, and in public talks are my own and not representative of my employers past, present, future, in nearby multiverses, etc.

Please contact me at diamond2 (at) uw (dot) edu if you would like to get in touch.